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Worst Hard Time: Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (06 Edition) by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein Publisher Comments Only yesterday the Great Depression seemed like a bad memory, receding into the hazy distance with little relevance to our own flush times. Economists assured us that the calamities that befell our grandparents could not happen again, yet the recent... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Woman Behind the New Deal: the Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (09 Edition) by Kirstin Downey Publisher Comments Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes Publisher Comments It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 by Robert S Mcelvaine Publisher Comments A perennial backlist performer.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hard Times : an Oral History of the Great Depression (86 Edition) by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments In this unique re-creation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. The book is a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M Barry Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America by Adam Cohen Publisher Comments A fascinating account of an extraordinary moment in the life of the United States. --The New York Times With the world currently in the grips of a financial crisis unlike anything since the Great Depression, Nothing to Fear could not be timelier. This... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 (Critical Issue) by Melvyn P Leffler Publisher Comments The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations... (read more) List Price $16.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1959: the Year Everything Changed (09 Edition) by Fred Kaplan Publisher Comments Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year Everything Changed An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor Publisher Comments Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Progress Administration (WPA): its passionate believers, its furious critics, and its amazing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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New World Coming : the 1920S and the Making of Modern America (03 Edition) by Nathan Miller Publisher Comments The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women's right to vote, racial injustice, and the birth of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley Publisher Comments The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 by Jason Smith Publisher Comments Reconstructing the story of how reformers used public authority to reshape the nation, Jason Scott Smith argues that the New Deal produced a revolution in state-sponsored economic development. The scale and scope of this dramatic federal investment in... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $27.99 New - Trade Paper
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Freedom From Fear : the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (99 Edition) by David M. Kennedy Publisher Comments Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Allen Publisher Comments Only Yesterday deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and morals,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas by Sally Denton Publisher Comments A long-overdue political biography of Helen Gahagan Douglas--Broadway star, Congresswoman, Nixon nemesis, and forgotten heroine of A merican liberalism. If Hillary Clinton struggled to crack the glass ceiling in 2008, imagine the challenges that faced... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy by David M Oshinsky Publisher Comments Acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of the life of Senator Joe McCarthy has been called both "nuanced" and "masterful." In this new paperback edition Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account available of Joe McCarthy's... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fifties by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America by Robert Collins Publisher Comments James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $11.23 Used - Hardcover
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